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...Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy in Albania or anywhere else in the Balkan peninsula. There will be no war this time certainly, but unless imperialistic policy changes its color in the near future there will come sooner or later an explosion. Near Eastern rivalries no more...
Ludwig van Beethoven really needs very little apology for having composed the "Missa Solemnis" and the denial of its spiritual inspiration smacks of more shallow pretext and sophistry...
...vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...
...political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh and fragrant spoor to extraordinary revelations...
Anti-Saloon League. Senator Reed called Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel and "legislative representative" of the Anti-Saloon League. The pretext for calling him was that he had sent the committee information that Wet interests had contributed to Mr. Vare's campaign but the real reason was that Senator Reed has been eager to dig into the affairs of the Anti-Saloon League. During an interval in the hearings, Mr. Wheeler looking rather worn, and wearing a too-large collar approached Mr. Reed...